Io Pan

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 01:32 — sighthound

What This Image Means To Me...:
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of Pan ! Io Pan . Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady ! Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards And nymphs and styrs for thy guards, On a milk-white ass, come over the sea To me, to me, Coem with Apollo in bridal dress (Spheperdess and pythoness)

As to what to make of the underlying meaning of the lines...well, there are many suggestions that it is a classic of homo-erotic literature from the turn of the century. I think that Crowley took some of his lead from Whitman in the construction of this work. I think that it is great stuff and Crowley certainly seemed inspired in the writing. Sighthound's picture seems to share that inspiration and goes well with it.